30/09/2026
📽 Four Days of Spanish Cinema: Life Stories 🎬
5-8 October at 🇫🇷Institut Français du Nigéria🇳🇬 🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞
Campeones (2018), by Javier Fesser. Marco, a professional basketball coach, finds himself in the midst of a personal crisis, coaching a team made up of people with intellectual disabilities. What begins as a problem ends up becoming a life lesson.
Los Destellos (2024), by Pilar Palomero. Isabel’s life takes an unexpected turn when her daughter Madalen asks her to regularly visit Ramón, who is seriously ill. After fifteen years away from her ex-husband, a man she now sees as a stranger despite having been family for many years, old resentments that Isabel thought she had overcome begin to resurface. However, by accompanying Ramón during his most vulnerable moments, Isabel manages to see the failure of their relationship from a different perspective and focus on the present of her own life.
El Desencanto (1976), by Jaime Chávarri. Leopoldo Panero, a poet, died in Astorga in 1962. Fourteen years later, the people who were most closely connected to him—his widow, Felicidad Blanc, and their three children—remember that hot August day. Through their words and their journey through rooms, objects, streets and places that have been lost to time, the story of a period and of people bound together by family ties unfolds, as they never shy away from expressing their differences and individual identities.
Soy Nevenka (2024), by Icíar Bollaín. In 2000, 24-year-old Nevenka Fernández, Councillor for Finance at the Ponferrada City Council, suffers a serious case of abuse at the hands of the mayor. Nevenka decides to report him, knowing that she will have to pay a very high price for doing so. Her case sparked the movement in Spain long before the term was coined. A story based on real events.
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